SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 28, 2016) - Lightbend (formerly Typesafe), the company behind the Reactive Platform that includes Lagom, Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, today announced that it ...

Typesafe Inc., the company co-founded by Martin Odersky, creator of the Scala programming language, has announced full commercial support for the Apache Spark Big data processing engine. Having ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More Results of a new survey indicate that the Apache Spark big ...

Databricks Inc., the primary commercial steward behind the popular open source Apache Spark data processing framework for Big Data analytics, published a new report indicating the technology is still ...

It’s been about three years since Apache Spark burst onto the big data scene and became one of the hottest technologies on the planet. Judging by the numbers surrounding Spark’s adoption—including ...

After an absence of about a year, and a stint as Research Director at the now defunct Gigaom Research, I've returned to ZDNet to cover Big Data. The year went by pretty quickly, but a number of things ...

Apache Spark is most often thought of as a faster replacement for MapReduce, the batch-oriented programming framework that enabled first-gen Hadoop to catch traction 10 years ago. Indeed, Spark was ...

An aggregate in mathematics is defined as a “collective amount, sum, or mass arrived at by adding or putting together all components, elements, or parts of an assemblage or group without implying that ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Here we begin a series of articles to look at Scala. Scala is a programming language that rides ...

The open source project .NET for Apache Spark has debuted in version 1.0, finally vaulting the C# and F# programming languages into Big Data first-class citizenship. Spearheaded by Microsoft and the ...